Geoffrey comes to the Meadows Institute from the Treatment Advocacy Center, where he was the director of communications and served as spokesman for the national mental illness policy nonprofit. In that role, he helped to…
Will was most recently the senior health and human services budget analyst for the Texas House of Representatives Appropriations Committee, leading development of an over $80 Billion budget, from drafting the introduced bill through final…
John is a nationally recognized expert on the criminalization of those with behavioral health needs with nearly twenty years of mental health and substance use disorder policy experience at the local, state, and national levels….
Shannon Ghangurde has nearly two decades of legislative and state budget experience working in the Texas Legislature. Prior to starting her own consulting practice, Shannon served as the Committee Director for the Senate Finance Committee…
Shannon Ghangurde has nearly two decades of legislative and state budget experience working in the Texas Legislature. Prior to starting her own consulting practice, Shannon served as the Committee Director for the Senate Finance Committee where she oversaw the budget writing process for all areas of state government, including health care, education, transportation, natural resources and general government services. During her time at the Capitol, she also served as the Committee Director for the Senate Health and Human Services Committee and General Counsel to Texas Senator Jane Nelson, where she helped lead negotiations on marquee initiatives including the health care portion of the state budget, Medicaid reform, historic advances for mental health, and the creation of the nation’s largest cancer research institute, CPRIT.
Shannon holds a bachelor’s degree in government from the University of Texas at Austin and a law degree from the Washington College of Law at American University.
